Letters to the editor for Sunday, December 2, 2012

Hydraulic fracturing is a ticking time bomb, a predictable, preventable ecological disaster waiting to happen. Gas drilling companies can't pay for the damage fracking causes because you can't eat, drink or breathe money. Once land, air and water are poisoned, there is no way to reverse it.

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Posted Dec. 2, 2012 at 2:00 AM

Posted Dec. 2, 2012 at 2:00 AM

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Hydraulic fracturing is a ticking time bomb, a predictable, preventable ecological disaster waiting to happen. Gas drilling companies can't pay for the damage fracking causes because you can't eat, drink or breathe money. Once land, air and water are poisoned, there is no way to reverse it.

Fracking is the most recent example of devastating pollution that happens despite assurances that there is no danger, and that any problems that might occur can be immediately contained and reversed. PCBs in the Hudson River (GE), chemical poisons in the Love Canal, horrific oil spills in Prince William Sound (Exxon) and the Gulf of Mexico (British Petroleum), nuclear accidents in Russia and Japan, and fracking disasters around the U.S. all continue to befoul and turn toxic the land, air and water they touched.

There is simply no way to undo pollution. The only hope is to stop it before it starts.

Star D. Hesse

Narrowsburg

I am totally in agreement with Ken Hall's column on Lincoln (Nov. 22).

I suggest in a time of turmoil and confusion every American see this movie. It will remind you what it truly means to be an American. Daniel Day-Lewis gives a performance like no other, worthy of every award Hollywood has to offer. I left this movie proud to be an American.

Donna Ghirardelli

Middletown

Lo the carnival ride. Where misfits are mainstream. A generation starving for attention. Stretched ears, excessive piercings and facial tattoos. We see you. We hear you, with your "like, like, I mean, you know!"

Well, I see it as merely fashion over function. "Art for art's sake." So many rebels without a cause. After all, what is practical about wearing your pants below the buttocks?

So many people in so many ways, just giving the rest of us the finger.

I know, I am just not intellectual enough to understand it. But hey, understand that if you can exercise your right to freedom of expression, which is in my face every day, then I can, without any of your impunity, express my freedom of speech. At least you have the option of simply turning the page or refraining from reading this letter.

It's not unreasonable to expect that liberal actions reflect a liberal vote. It is unreasonable, however, even unconscionable, if any of those donning these self-destructive excesses, purchased them while on some sort of welfare. That would be disrespectful to the hand that feeds you!